Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
See also: Events:
- January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.
- February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce[?].
- March 3 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
- March 17 - Luther Gulick[?] and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).
- March 28 - Henri Fabre[?] becomes the first person to fly a seaplane[?] after taking off from a water runway near Martinques[?], France.
- May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- May 11 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- May 16 - The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines[?].
- May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
- May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa.
- July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries[?] in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
- August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
- October 5th[?] - Portugal becomes a republic.
- December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 7 - Orval Faubus[?], Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (+ 1994)
- January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova[?], dancer (+ 1988)
- January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
- January 16 - Dizzy Dean[?], Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1974)
- January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (+ 1953)
- February 6 - Irmgard Keun[?], author (+ 1982)
- February 7 - Max Bense[?], philosopher (+ 1990)
- February 9 - Jacques Monod[?], biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (+ 1976)
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator
- February 27 - Joan Bennett[?], actress (+ 1990)
- March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
- March 11 - Robert Havemann[?], chemist (+ 1982)
- March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (+ 1985)
- March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
- March 23 - Lale Andersen[?], singer and cabaretist (+ 1972)
- March 27 - John Pierce[?], electrical engineer
- April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German[?], writer (+ 1967)
- May 12 - ? Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin[?], chemist (+ 1994)
- May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (+ 1986)
- May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
- May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (+ 1975)
- May 30 - Inge Meysel[?], actress
- July 4 - Gloria Stuart[?], actress
- August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
- December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
- Mother Theresa
- Ronald Coase
Deaths:
- January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
- May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
- May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (*1843)
- May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
- November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)
- Mark Twain
- Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Chemistry - Otto Wallach
- Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
- Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
- Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau[?]
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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